Activity #1

LENGUA EXTRANJERA ESCRITURA

Topics: Present Perfect Continuous, For & Since, Passive Voice.
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Name & Group: George Louis Pink Palace , Grupo 06.

Think about the things you have been doing for the last 5 years to
achieve your goals and write 5 sentences using Present Perfect
Continuous.
Bonus: Got extra points if you use for & since.

1. My goal is to have a good job, I have been studying since I was 18 years
old
2. My goal is to be a good playe, I have been learning billiards for more than
10 years
3. I want to be happy always, I have been having fun since my childhood
4. I want to be a good Singer, I have been listening to vallenato for the love
of folklore
5. My goal is always to be in shape, I have been playing soccer since I
learned to kick a ball

Explain when we can use Present Perfect Continuous

Unfinished actions, that is, actions that started in the past and continue at the
present moment
Example: Margarita has been working por 20 years
Explain when we can use Passive Voice

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 Is used to draw attention to the person or thing that is affected by the action
of the verb
Read the following article and find the sentences in Passive Voice.

A Brief History of the Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a
group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as
well as leading artists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to
create a museum to bring art and art education to the
American people.

The Metropolitan's paintings collection also began in 1870,

when three private European collections, 174 paintings in all,
came to the Museum. A variety of excellent Dutch and
Flemish paintings, including works by such artists as Hals and
Van Dyck, was supplemented with works by such great
European artists as Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi.

The collections continued to grow for the rest of the 19th

century – upon the death of John Kensett, for example, 38 of
his canvases came to the Museum. But it is the 20th century
that has seen the Museum's rise to the position of one of the
world's great art centers. Some highlights: a work by Renoir
entered the Museum as early as 1907 (today the Museum has
become one of the world's great repositories of Impressionist
and Post-Impressionist art)...in 1910 the Metropolitan was the

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 first public institution to accept works of art by Matisse...by
1979 the Museum owned five of the fewer than 40 known
Vermeers...the Department of Greek and Roman Art now
oversees thousands of objects, including one of the finest
collections in glass and silver in the world...The American
Wing holds the most comprehensive collection of American
art, sculpture, and decorative arts in the world...the Egyptian
art collection is the finest outside Cairo...the Islamic art
collection is without peer...and so on, through many of the 17
curatorial departments.

In 1880, the Metropolitan Museum moved to its current site in

Central Park. The original Gothic-Revival-style building has
been greatly expanded in size since then, and the various
additions (built as early as 1888) now completely surround the
original structure. The present facade and entrance structure
along Fifth Avenue were completed in 1926.

A comprehensive architectural plan for the Museum approved

in 1971 was completed in 1991. The architects for the project
were Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, and the
overall aim was to make the Museum's collections more
accessible to the public, more useful to the scholars and, in
general, more interesting and informative to all visitors.

Among the additions to the Museum as part of the master

plan are: the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an
extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; the installation in
The Sackler Wing of the Temple of Dendur (1978), an
Egyptian monument (ca. 15 B.C.) that was given to the United
States by Egypt; The American Wing (1980), whose
magnificent collection also includes 24 period rooms offering

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 an unparalleled view of American art history and domestic life;
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (1982) for the display of the
arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; the Lila Acheson
Wallace Wing (1987), which houses modern art; and the
Henry R. Kravis Wing, devoted to European sculpture and
decorative arts from the Renaissance to the beginning of the
20th century.

With the building now complete, the Metropolitan Museum

continues to refine and reorganize the collections in its
existing spaces. In June 1998, the Arts of Korea gallery
opened to the public, completing a major suite of galleries – a
"museum within the Museum" – devoted to the arts of Asia. In
October 1999 the renovated Ancient Near Eastern Galleries
reopened. And a complete renovation and reinstallation of the
Greek and Roman Galleries is underway: the first phase, The
Robert and Renée Belfer Court for early Greek art, opened in
June 1996; the New Greek Galleries premiered in April 1999;
and in April 2000 the Cypriot Galleries will open to the public.
Taken from https://www.metmuseum.org/press/general-information/2005/a-
brief-history-of-the-museum

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